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We don't know much about Cygnetic Records indeed. Saint Gallen in Switzerland is at the crossroads of Germany, Liechtenstein and Austria, close to Constance lake (so, Germanic part of CH). End of 2004, the site was already active as shown in the web archive But early 2005 is was gone and never returned, then was cyber squatted after the domain expiration. There's very few infos on discogs on the artists themselves: We have a name for Overmind Projection for instance: Roman Bossart. Alien Spacecraft/Artificial Identity: K.Skye. The Infinity Float: Ken Da Luyd. Hmm why would they stop making music like that ? Lack of equipment? Lack of motivation? Worse? Anyway I'm sure some of these guys still exist. In any case the guys had two studios with a crazy equipment list. Like they ran studios or something... and they probably met other crazy synth collectors as can be shown on their link list like here or there. If they cannot be reached directly, I bet they can in an indirect way (like they must have conacted other people through these forums/links).

Mindsphere - Patience for Heaven

Oh that was a joke? I hadn't understood it was funny, sorry.

@Goa Travellers: why? Does he need it? Did he state it anywhere? I'm not even sure he uses analogic equipment anymore. From my experience, topics like "let's do something" lead to nowhere. The writer thinks "someone" will do the dirty job and the readers think the writer will do the dirty job. The dirty job being: - opening a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo or kickstarter, etc - opening a similar topic on twistedmusic.com forums and advertising on social media like facebook, etc - keeping the artist in touch with the topic (as well as obtaining his agreement to the "let's so something" in the first place) - making the topic live until the end of the campaign ...in other words, dedicating time and energy to it ! ciao

It depends mainly on 3 factors: the gear, the mixing, the mastering As of today more artists use a virtual gear and that makes it easier to chop those overlapping/competing frequencies that destroy parts of the sound. No matter if they use analog or virtual gerat, some artists are better at mixing than others. Either because they had the education or they naturally have an ear for that. Also some search the right frequency ranges to put the maximum power in a track witrhout making frequencies to compete (look at the bass/kick rockets they pour into fullon tracks now!!!) And the same goes with the mastering guys who use a more or less advanced gear and know more or less well how/where to enhance/cut the frequencies. I'm not mentioning each substyle which uses different features: prog vs fullon vs dark vs goa. Alltogether, that is an infinite range of possibilities and it would be hard to describe perfection from there. I think now we're in an era where people pay attention to the production, especially as you can well hear defects on a high end sound system or in a party/festival. So there has been a strong motives to improve the psytrance production in the last 15 years, and I think we can now talk about something that's close to perfection and might slightly evolve again but less than what happend in the last 15 years thanks to the above factors.

My very very first try at Psytrancde was Prana (didn't like it at first). And then Hallucinogen, which did the snap! Basically I listened to "Twisted" constantly in the first half of 1996. After that, Total Eclipse, MFG, Astral Projection, Transwave, Etnica, Shakta were playing in my stereo every day.

We're still making more physically. It's mostly a gut feeling, I don't have figures to show.

first and foremost, believe me, it's VERY hard to assess how many CDs of a given release should be printed. In the Goa genre, 1000+ was still doable in 2010. Now it's doable only if you release a blockbuster (Filteria, RA) and only after 3 years or so. I have the Suntrip figures at your disposal if you want. Since november 2008, the only releases that went out of stock were Filteria's Daze of Our Lives and E-Mantra - Arcana (very last copies are on the suntrip shop). After 3.5 years we still have 250 Merr0w and Radical Distortion, we have 250-300 of all we released in 2010, 300-400 of what we released in 2011 and 500+ of what we released in 2012. I have 3000+ CDs in stock right now. See what I mean? Soon there will be no point in stating "limited edition" on covers because everyone will press sub-1000 batches. 300 used to be a promo batch, in the past !!! 700 copies would be the best for us at this moment but presses charge them almost as much as a 1000 CD batch. On top of it, 500, or worse, 300 copies are much more expensive to press, per CD, so the profitability further drops. In other words, the CD is dying and all we press now is for those who still like the pleasure of holding the physical thing in their hands. MindRewind is a compil made in 604 copies (not 300, but it's arguable) by collectors, for collectors(!). Personnally I'd have wished a bigger batch. Not sure what's going to happen with MR2. And this (of course, inevitably) triggered discontent, I agree with you. What we did with InnerSpace and what Altar records is doing for example is also something dedicated to "afficionados" of the genre. You like the music, you are a collector, then buy it. Else get it on iTunes. As far as we're concerned, we don't want to speculate on these releases and prevent people from buying several copies for example. And if some start speculating (like it happend with Khetzal) we repress 500 copies and kill speculation. Now, I almost regret we put "limited 2010 edition" on our SUNCD02-03-04-06-07-08-10 represses. It should have been "2010 edition".

Nerso - Synapse

Answer: yes.

It's good! I never liked the original, the mastering on this one, at least, is much better.

Khetzal ?

Warmth

Note this is the first time we release a track twice in 8 years, this is for a limited edition, not a broad one! Actually, this is the other way around: we got this whole album before Shaltu. We chose that track for the compil before we decided to release the InnerSpace album. Jörg didn't have a substitute and as the album was meant to be "like that", we released it as-is. That said, you'll notice the tempo is different on both releases. Jörg has now completed a new track, I hope this will be for a future release Most certainly. You need flash.

I think Lyctum does excellent work. I noticed Lyctum on the day I listened to the Lightforce EP. Superb release. The Cassiopeia EP was also interesting, maybe more typic of the genre. Buy them and you'll see... So I crossed fingers for an album. "Tales Of The Universe" is a solid album. Not flawless as Nerso's album could be, but very good nonetheless. There are a few superb tracks like Euphoria, Little Earth, Minds Mystery, The Eclipse. Superb grooves, delicate melodies, cinematic sequences, kickass tracks structure is what Lyctum is about. I hope he does more soon but his sound has to remain inventive/fresh. I said the Balkans saved the Psytrance year 2011. Well, they also contributed greatly to 2012 so far!

I have Simon Posford's work in high esteem and respect. I started listening to Goatrance when I heard LSD on the radio. I had exhilarating (drugless) dancefloor experiences during live-acts of his between 96 and 99. I still consider most of his works (both albums, Eclipse compilation, Shpongles, Yeti, etc) as some of the most brillant electronic music ever released... ..BUT... ...I've explained on this board already a couple of times why I believe a third Hallucinogen album will never happen and you should just go and fantasize on music that's actually released. The main reason is the frigthening expectations people put in it. Another public reason is he finds it boring to work alone. And there's this state where you have quit for so long that you don't even know where to start, especially as you've aged and you're less motivated to start over a new leaf. And there's also his own perception on what he does when he tries. And he's human like many others (said politely)... Astral Projection are no different btw.

Super track surely. If you pitch it down a little, you get a track in the range of Acid Shell and Fractal Gate. Alien Protein CD is 68 minutes, it would fit on a CD now, but I'm not sure it was easy to press >74min CDs back in 1996. Ukiro or Draeke must know the story behind it, I don't remember. Search for "etnica--alien_protein_(br014)_lp_bonus-vinyl-1996-dl" on the Internet. I hate promoting piracy but that's probably the only way to find it in good quality.

These days the best progressive comes from the balkans

Hi Yeah Optiloop are very good, their track on Carrots & Stick 2 has a great drive! With Iono, Iboga and Tesseract you gather 99% of the good stuff. Check also Yellow Sunshine Explosion (YSE) and Tribal Vision labels. A very serious newcomer is Lyctum with his album Tales from The Universe on YSE which follows a couple of superb EPs. Protonica has also very good tracks. Klopfgeister might also put you in a good mood On the Israeli side are Ritmo, Suntree, Ace Ventura, Rocky etc... Ah, Meller from Germany also have very good tracks. If you look back a few more years, I'd advise Native Radio and Tegma's first 2 albums.

I disagree with you to some extent. Let's hear it, and then we can talk!

Should be ok now. I tested it.

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